grapnel

How To Use grapnel In A Sentence

• The spicules are some crutch-like, others spined or echinated, while the deep-sea sponges appear to grow long thick spicules, which attach the sponge to the ground by means of grapnel-like ends. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887
• They would have three good ships for cutting grapnels and holding grapnels, so that they could buoy and lift the cable in three parts.
• It's the first large anchor that divers have retrieved; they earlier brought up a small, grapnel anchor. Blackbeard's anchor recovered off N.C. coast
• In fact, as Tendron threw grapnels across and boarded the ship, he was welcomed by a committee which included Redwing and Princess Jenaryn.
• A wide variety of chain/wire chasers and grapnels are available, in addition to those illustrated below.
• Many of the grapnels never reached the top because they were soaked and too heavy.
• The grapnel is a small anchor, made like four pot-hooks tied back to back. Heroes of the Telegraph
• Apertures for grapnels will be cut by divers.
• Oh! we call a small kind of grapnel, or four-armed anchor, a creeper," said Will. Menhardoc
• His search-party, too, had looked awkward there, having rushed to the task of investigation — some in their shirt sleeves, others in their leather aprons, and all much stained — just as they had come from their work of barking, and not in their Sherton marketing attire; while Creedle, with his ropes and grapnels and air of impending tragedy, had added melancholy to gawkiness. The Woodlanders